davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
THE RACES.

The races at the Driving Park on
Saturday were very well attended,
there being several thousand people on
the grounds. The racing was fine in
every particular and it is to the credit
of our city that we can have as good an
exhibition of this kind as Kansas City
or st. Louis.
The first race on the programme was
the 2:29 class, trotting race. Light
Bird won the first two heats, and FL
wood the next three. Light Bird being
set back in the fourth heat for running.
Elwood first money, Light Bird second.
Time, 2:35, Obi, 2:3lI, 2:33.
Second Race-Free-for-all pace, had
only two competitors, NARROW and Billy
Carter. NARROW won the, first heat
easily. In the second heat Billy Carter
showed some of his speed. Both
horses paced the mile neck to neck to
the finish, Carter winning by half a
length. The remaining heats and
race were won easily by NARROW, Car
ter's driver being unable to hold him
down to his gait. Time, 2:27, 2:21,
2:29, 2-263.
The double team trot between Sorrel
Dan and Fred H. and Kinlock Maid
and George S. was won in two straight
heats by the first named pair. Time,
3:O3 and 300.
The half mile and. repeat rum
ming race had as entries: Red Bird,
Little Ball. Billy Duff, Little Buekton,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
WIN. F. EWING, Clerk.
FrOun Over the water

THE NEWS Office was the recipient
to-day of a letter from r. J. Roberts
and family, who are now on visit to
his native country, North Wales. He
reports having rafting good time,
visiting different places of interest and
resort, making special mention of his
visit to the Calvinistic, Methodist asso-
citation, Sassiwn, which was held at
LlaneFchymedd, Anglesea, also to the
great quarries at Bethesda, where they
were entertained by Miss Thomas, sis
ter of our worthy townsman r. Thomas
of the firm of Lloyd & Thomas. He re-
ports the weather fine, but equally as
warm in his opinion as in Kansas.
The WEEKLY NEWS reaches him
regularly and keeps him well posted on
all matters of interest concerning EN-
poria and Lyon county. He states that
it is the only paper that does anything
in the way of booming the town or CIV
ing any details of the natural gas ques-
ton, which he hopes will prove sue
cess. He states that trade in the old
country is in depressed state, and no
signs of any immediate improvement,
concluding by sending sackful of re-
CARDS to all friends and enquirers, ex-
pecting to return to Emporia early in
September.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07

nounced shows that ali except seven
passed. What will become of the lone
seven is now the question. The rules
do not require the summary dismissal
of those who fail TO pass but leave it to
the discretion of the Department
whether TO retain or dismiss. The pro-
liability is that in most cases dismissal
will follow as there are many applicants
eager for the places, and as soon as it Is
learned that there are places that can
be consistently made vacant under
color of law, the appointing power will
have no rest until the vacancies are
made and filed. The way the positions
are obtained is to receive an appoint
ment as a messenger or laborer and
then being inside enter one of these ex-
aminations and if you pass bring the
influance that got you the first position
to bear on the head of the Department
to promote you to one of the positions
made vacant by the dismissal of the
clerk who performed the duties salts
factorily for years but failed to stand
the test of the Civil service standard
of competency. There are many ways
of doing a thing or accomplishing a
purpose if you haYe ingenuity enough
to make the way. The clerks are all
staying at home these warm nights and
sweating under the heat of the mid
night oil to prepare themselves for the
coming ordeal. So far the women have
passed higher in the examinations
than the men.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
CHEAP EXCURSION RATES

Over the AGchssOn. Topeka & santa
Fe and the Chicago. Rock Island Il
Pacific Railways 20 Chicago and Re-
Gurn for S17.S5.
Tickets will be sold only from July
5th to 18th, inclusive, good for going
passage July 9Th to 18th. inclusive, and
for return passage July 18th to 18th,
inclusive, but not prior to July 18th.
An extension of return limits to Sep
TENDER 8, 1887, will, however, be ac-
corded on application to Mr.. John N.
Abbott, Chairman Western States
Passenger Association, Home In
suranee Building, Chicago, if made
during continuance of convention, or
before July 1Sth-return portion of the
ticket to be stamped by the Secretary
of the National Educational assocfa-
ton.
In connection with the Santa Fe and
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the
Lake Shore s. Michigan Southern Rail-
way Co., announces that all persons
purchasing tickets via the Chicago
Rock Island s. Pacific to Chicago and
return, viii be supplied with excursion
rates at one fare for the round trip to
all stations on their line; also, TO
Niagara Falls, Toronto, and all points
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
Killed by the Cars.

Monday afternoon about $3.50 an
unknown man was struck by the west
bound cannonball and killed. He had
attempted to cross the railroad bridge
over the Maries DIES Cygnes River,
about two miles east of Reading.
There is a small house on the east ap-
proach of the bridge, and man there
says he told him not to try to cross the
bridge Dis the train was coming and
would catch him. He said he guessed
he could make it and started, but just
as he crossed and was stepping off the
track, the engine struck him and threw
him from the track. A passenger. who
came 10 this city on the train said the
engineer stopped the train very sud-
denly, and tried to avert the disaster,
but was unable to do so. The man
was hit on the back of the head, his
skull was crushed in and the top of his
head was torn open. The man was
about five feet ten, probably weighed
one hundred and forty, he was about
sixty years of age. He was poorly
dressed in gray clothes, had on cloth
overshoes, wore full, short gray beard.
He had coffee pot, frying pan, and
blankets with him and was evidently
tramping. He is said to have been
seen in this city last Saturday. The
coroner has been notified and at the
inquest some new facts may be devel-
ODed
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07

rebuke of the Union sentiment OF the
country that amid great periiS in the
South supported the Government; a ma
tional insult to the patriotism We are
here to honor, and national crime
against those who devoted their for
tunes and their lives to the support,
defence and preservation of the Re
public.o
There would be absolutely no word
of dissent from these just sentiments,
thus diSpassionate but strongly stated
were there not a gre at political party
which owes its success in the past, its
hopes of success in the future, and its
very existence, to the yindictive mem
Dries of defeated traitors, and to their
unchanged determination to defeat and
defy laws which tend to lessen their
political power. The Democratic party
exists to-day because there is in certain
states malignant rebelism of feeling
tremendously powerful, which lifts to
high Office and honor men conspicuous
only by their crimes against the Union,
which binds together in a league OF
lawbreakers a million survivors of the
rebellion and their descendants to de-
feat and nullify Constitutional amend
ment and all laws to secure freedom of
suffrage. That is the power which
Mr.. Cleveland represents. The Sena-
tors Indictment is calm, dispaSsionate
but terribly lust
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
our wAsHINGTON LETTER
Special Correspondence of the NEWS:

Special Correspondence of the news:
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 5, 1887.
Notwithstanding the hot weather
which prevails here there are more
senators and representatives in the
city than were ever known before in
this month of the year, except when
con ress was sitting. The only reason
that can be assigned for it is that the
fiscal year of the government closed on
the last day of June and the appropria-
tions were available after July first. 1t
is not generally known outside of the
capital that there are more changes in
the federal offices on the last of June
to take effect the first of July than at
any other time in the year. It is like
settling up old accounts and starting
with q new force. Congress at its last
session provided for large increase in
the force of the several departments,
and also created many new federal Off
ces throughout the whole country, and
it is after these new offices more especial
ly than for retention of favorites in posi-
tions already secured that these states
men are here. 1t is pretty warm
weather to have to listen to appeals for
Office, but still the president stands the
interviewing and importuning with
equanimity of mind, good nature and
proveTbial stolidity. After the fatigue
of the day he drives out to Oak View
and regales himself in the cool of the
evening with pleasant social chat with
members of his family and guests, who
studiously avoid discussing any of the
weighty care of state.
The old Mexican veterans are happy
over the dispatch with which their
claims are settled. The pension Office
has recognised the necessity of prompt
action in these cases owing to the ad-
vanced age of most of the claimants,
and so has put big force upon them.
If the papers are properly prepared and
the claim subStantiated when filed the
claimant usually can obtain a final set
Element in from two to three months.
AS rule in other cases it is a year or
more before they are reached for action,
and then comes delay after delay caused
by absurd calls for additional evidence.
AS rule the Office requires a claimant
to prove his case many times over by
calling for such evidence that no court
would give any weight to. This seri-
GUS delay to the interests of the claim
ant Is not willful on the part of the
government but due to the total ignor-
ance of the law of evidence by the large
majority of the clerks whose business it
is to pass upon the sufficiencY of the
proofs submitted. There is, perhaps,
no bureau under the government where
such a large proportion of its force
should be thoroughly familiar with the
principles of the law of evidence as
that of the pension Office, and yet it is
difficult to conceive of less informed
body of men on that subject than the
clerks In that Office. If the soldier ele-
ment would demand more efficiency in
that branch of the government it would
get it.
The Civil service compulsory ex-
animation in the Departments for pro-
motion is now being held and there is
anxiety as to the result. The examine
alton in the War Department was closed
one week ago and che result just an
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07

Lady Cratic, Frank Clapp, Maud VIM
tiers and Jno. Red. Little Buckton won
both heats and the race. Time, All.
The mile dash had four starters:
Irish Mile, Mike Whiting, Maud
Marston and JEFF Harrington Mars
ton and Whiting made the running,
Moud Marston winning by a neck.
Time 1:4S.
In the evening grand pyrotechnic
display was given, over $500 worth of
fireworks being exploded. The Driving
Park Association may well congratu-
late itself upon this the most success
full attempt it has yet made to interest
the people in its speed exhibitions.
MIR. Bean, the gentlemanIy manager,
thoroughly understands this sort OF
thing, and if he continues to receive
proper encouragement, he will make
the Emporia Driving Park the most
popular race-course in the state and in
the West.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
A SOCIETY MESS.

We clip from tho Kansas City News
the following bit of society news which
will be read with interest by some of
our citizens, inasmuch as the prin-
cipal actor in the affair, Mr.. Stoller,
will be remembered as the person who
was in Emporia about six weeks ago
and gave evidence before the district
court in the replevin suit OF Bettman
Brothers involving the j. Hess stock.
Christ church was the scene of a
grand wedding April IA, 1885, Every
pew in the vast edifice was filed with
the elite of Kansas City, and the
orange blossoms and roses which
adorned the bride-elect were the tokens
of a prospective happy welded life.
Little children strewed the aisle with
flowers as pretty Miss Katie Fisher
walked to the altar where she was to
be bound in holy wedlock to the choice
of her heart, Mr.. III. s. StOller.
They were married and apparently
drifted along on the tide of life with
to fan their skiff. Mr.. StOller was i'm
mensely Wealthy-so he said. He
wanted wife to help him spend his
fortune-so he said. She could buy a
sumptuously furnished palace in Kan
sas City, or live in the parlors of the
Palmer house, Chicago-so he said. II
was not long before the discovery was
made that Mr.. Stoller was i'm
mensely wealthy only in his mind;
that like the palace by the
lake of Como, his boosted edifice was a
very diminutive house. He was a
drummer for Chicago house, working
on small salary-that was all. But
Kate was willing to love and obey him
still. She had wealth of her own, foI
she was one of the family into which
Mr.. Nelson, owner of the Nelson build
ing, and Mr.. Lucas, of the Security In
vestment Company, married. Mrs.
Stoller, in her despair as to the future,
finally consulted clairvoyant. 'You
will be separated" said the latter,
''and when you marry again you will
piness of the future" The female
seer was right, for two months ago Mr..
and Mrs. Stoller separated, and it was
due to the discovery of very sensational
facts, which have been partially veri-
fed within the past few days. MIR.
StOlIer, so it was reported, had another
wife in the East, whose
death certificate was no where
to be found. In fact as far as could be
learned by MPssrs. Lucas and Nelson
the first wife was an exceeding live
corpse. While Mr.. Lucas acknowl-
edged the above facts to an Evening
News reporter, he refused to state how
the information had been cleaned.
''Mr. Stoller," said he, lis now in Colo
RADIO, / understand. don't know
whether we will prosecute him or not.
At any rate it won't be safe for Mr..
Stolier to come here. AS far as know
he is still travelling for d Chicago house.
1 don't know where his other wife is,
although we have fairly definite in
formation that he had been married be-
fore he came to Kansas City"
So, after all, pretty Miss Kate Fisher
of year ago is pretty Miss Kate Fish
er still
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
ADANGEROUs GUEST.
Anarchy said 60 Have Establish ed
Headquarters Among Washington
knights or Labor.

Anarchy said 60 Have Establish ed
Headquarters Among Washington
knights or Labor.
Recent disclosures in Washington
indicate that the anarchists have sue
ceeded in establishing a pretty firm
foothold in the Knights of Labor.
The canker has eaten pretty deep into
district assembly Sc, of this city, it
seems. The matter has become pre-
maturely public through the suggestion
of General Master Workman POwderly
that the Fourth of July be celebrated
by all the Knights of Labor organ
izations in fitting manner. This sug-
gestion, when it was laid before district
assembly No. Sc was tabled. The
leaders of the assembly had no spirit
for such a celebration, and they laid
great stress on the fact that the 9TH of
September, Labor Day" was an oc-
casion far more worthy of observance.
That one of these leaders spoke dis
respectfully and insultingly of the
United States flag when this suggestion
was being discussed is an absolute fact
one which has been repeatedly made
and never denied. The publication of
this refusal led to a change of front,
and the district assembly decided to
hold meeting on the 4th at Hyatts-
vile, a llCCIo village some miles from
Washington, and entirely outside of
the district. The speakers announced
have a peculiar significance. They are
L. B. Mcclure, of New York City,
and j. E. Quinn, the grand master
workman of District assembly, No. 40.
The latter assembly, it will be re-
membered, had within itself an organ
iZatiOn known as the home club. After
this concern had acquired an I'M
enViable reputation its name was
changed to 1.-THE Glass; An organ
iZatiOn known also as THE Class
now exists in Washington under the
patronage of district assembly No Sc.
1t meets every Sunday night and its
members go through a regular course
of schooling in the peculiar ideas
which the communistic leaders desire
to inculcate in the minds of their pupils
Within the astyear, however, although
the membership of 1.-The Glass; has
| increased the attendance has de-
creased. Some of the speeches which
| have been delivered in this city.
literally under the shadow of the dome
of the capitol, but within the locked
doors of the aSsembly'S place OF
meeting, have been such as to rouse
the Indignation of the loyal knights
who have heard them. Up to the pre-
sent time, however, owing to the strict
secrecy enforced, only the faintest
rumors of the true state of affairs have
been current.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
AMERICUR NEWe.

AMERICUs, July AT the annual
school meeting yesterday s. p. Elliott
was reelected treasurer. The meet
ing voted to allow the band the use of
the school house 1.-THE frame buiIding)
free of charge for a band room. The
teachers were given one week on, ow:
ing to the lateness which they were
compelled to commence last fall, con-
sequentIy school will close next Tues
day, the Sth. An eight months terra
was voted for the coming year.
h. w. Gibson returned yesterday
from the west, whittier he went with a
view of locating. He made purchases
in COldwater, Comaache county.
A good rain visited this section last
night and to-day, the first that has fell
since two weeks ago last Tuesday, in
this immediate vicinity.
A large number of our people attend
ed the stock sale of l. ID. Fox yester-
day. BURLo.W
The best of meats at White s. shieI-
bly's.
More goods and More bargains at
Gibson's next week.
Bull dog breeches at Gibson's.
Best stock of boots and shoes at Glib
sons.
Hsnning's to buy or sell your pro-
duce.
Henning's stock is increasing, while
prices are decreasing; his goods speak
Tor themselves, and # you call on him
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07
THE SCORE.

Emporia only played eight innings.
When the Wichita club wins game
the Eagle devotes a column to COM
ments on the game. On Tuesday the
Emporia's beat them by score of 5 to
2, which shows conclusively that the
game must have been good one. New
ertheless the Eagles only reference to
the game was as follows:
The base ball game to-day was wit
messed by small crowd. The game,
up to the fifth inning, was a rather in
teresting one, then became very COM
monplace. There was considerable
kicking on the umpire's decisions in
MANY instances.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07

The economy OF natural gas as fuel
for terminating steam is illustrated by
the Paola Touring mills. These mills
have a capacity of1O0 barrels of -four a
day. The entire power is furnished by
six gas jets, flowing under a pressure
of about nine ounces, but the maxi
mum usually used is not more than
seven ounces. These jets are arranged
on line in the fire-box, which is filed
with pieces of fire brick to hold the
heat, and each jet about three-quar-
tiers of an inch in diameter, passes up
througha larger pipe. which leaves the
air space around the jet of about one
and half inches.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07

Col. Feighan spoke at Greensburg to
large and enthusiastic audience.
n. NJ. Florey addressed the Americas
people at their celebration, which was
fine one.
Senator Plumb spoke at Minneapolis
to a very large assembly of people.
Judge Waterbury spoke at Madison
yesterday. The celebration was a sue
cess in every particular.
J. A. Smith spoke at Reeves grove
yesterday. "A very enthusiastic cele-
bration was held at that place.
Hon. AL. Flory made a fine address
at Rinker's ford yesterday to the cele-
brating populace.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-07


THE North American in discussing
the flag business observes very point
edly:
1t should be suggested to those or
gans who are crying down the flag
talk with a great waste of ink, paper
and ingenuity, and who are constantly
accusing republican journals of politi-
cal motives in keeping it up, when
in reality they are keeping it up them
selves, that it will serve them no coed
purpose To sneer at the soldier as they
have been doing. 1t will not help their
defense of the president to say that
General Fairchild can have the tat
tered flags for a shroud, or that the
Grand Army boys can have them to
make panties for their children. They
will more fully realize the force of
their excellent irony. when thew see
finally where it hits. Theirs is the Bit
ter talk that comes from the pot that is
black, and it is their desperate effort to
turn blunder to account which is
keeping up the discussion. They talk
of republican malice and plots with the
Juror of outraged innocence. They
should expand their energies in kicking
themselves for their own blunders